Environment

NFU Scotland has decided to challenge findings published in Lancet, the influential medical journal.

The Scottish Government has rejected calls for farmers to receive compensation where beaver damage is causing a financial loss.

A huge tranche of the hill land on the iconic Glen Dye Estate in the eastern Grampians has been sold for forestry and peatland restoration.

A huge tranche of the hill land on the iconic Glen Dye Estate in the eastern Grampians has been sold for forestry and peatland restoration.

UK agriculture must turn the net zero conundrum on its head and ‘see its current liabilities as assets’, the 2021 Nuffield Conference heard.

Trees have been hitting the headlines this week in the wake of Storm Arwen. Such has been the devastation wrought in parts of the country by the bad weather and strong winds that the damage and amount of toppled trees is like nothing seen in the past 20 years, according to some.

With major farming policy changes in Wales set for next year there was one clear message emerging from this week’s Royal Welsh Winter Fair – sustainability.

Proposals for a new solar farm spanning parts of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire which will see agricultural land taken out of production have faced strong opposition from local farmers.

Inaction from National Resources Wales (NRW) has seen farmland continue to be flooded every year, leaving Anglesey farmers exasperated.

In October I stood in a room full of 800 farmers and rural businesses at Farmers Guardian’s British Farming Awards and watched Sheena Horner step onto the stage and accept the Farming Hero honour.